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Posted 19 January 2007 - 10:00 PM

2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

3. The dot over the letter I is called a "tittle."

4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down
continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was
albino.

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.

10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will
kill a small sized dog.

12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's
stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).

14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.

15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

16. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in
the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the
upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored
the
smaller, 'lower case' letters.

17. Leonardo DaVinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at
the same time. (Hence, multitasking was invented.)

18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II
were made of wood.

19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a
recorded Wendy before!

21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, Purple,
and silver!

23 A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and
sting itself to death.

24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a
Captain Kirk's mask painted white.

25. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have
$1.19, you also have the largest amount of money in coins without being
able to make change for a dollar (good to know).

26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in
quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless).

27. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which
stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your
thumb.

28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for
automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the
Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

29. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of
celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples!

30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

32. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most
often stolen from Public Libraries.

33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a space suit damages it.

34. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart .. "Boy, I feel a lot
safer now that she's behind bars. O. J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still
walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the ONE woman in
America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and they haul her
off to jail."

lady

Posted 20 January 2007 - 05:12 AM

lady

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THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW --- BUT PROBABLY DON'T

Things you never knew had names... Go ahead look them up..(I didn't)

1. AGLET - The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace.2. ARMSAYE - The armhole in clothing.3. CHANKING - Spat-out food, such as rinds or pits.4. COLUMELLA NASI - The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils.5. DRAG�ES - Small beadlike pieces of candy, usually silver-coloured, used for decorating cookies, cakes and sundaes.6. FEAT - A dangling curl of hair.7. FERRULE - The metal band on a pencil that holds the eraser in place.8. HARP - The small metal hoop that supports a lampshade.9. HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER - A 64th note. (A 32nd is a demisemiquaver, and a 16th note is a semiquaver.)10. JARNS,11. NITTLES,12. GRAWLIX,13. and QUIMP - Various squiggles used to denote cussing in comic books.14. KEEPER - The loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.15. KICK or PUNT - The indentation at the bottom of some wine bottles. It gives added strength to the bottle but lessens its holding capacity.16. LIRIPIPE - The long tail on a graduate's academic hood.17. MINIMUS - The little finger or toe.18. NEF - An ornamental stand in the shape of a ship.19. OBDORMITION - The numbness caused by pressure on a nerve; when a limb is `asleep'.20. OCTOTHORPE - The symbol `#' on a telephone handset. Bell Labs' engineer Don Macpherson created the word in the 1960s by combining octo-, as in eight, with the name of one of his favourite athletes, 1912 Olympic decathlon champion Jim Thorpe.21. OPHRYON - The space between the eyebrows on a line with the top of the eye sockets.22. PEEN - The end of a hammer head opposite the striking face.23. PHOSPHENES - The lights you see when you close your eyes hard. Technically the luminous impressions are due to the excitation of the retina caused by pressure on the eyeball.24. PURLICUE - The space between the thumb and extended forefinger.25. RASCETA - Creases on the inside of the wrist.26. ROWEL - The revolving star on the back of a cowboy's spurs.27. SADDLE - The rounded part on the top of a matchbook.28. SCROOP - The rustle of silk.29. SNORKEL BOX - A mailbox with a protruding receiver to allow people to deposit mail without leaving their cars.30. SPRAINTS - Otter dung.31. TANG - The projecting prong on a tool or instrument.32. WAMBLE - Stomach rumbling.33. ZARF - A holder for a handleless coffee cup.